Chapter Summaries

After Xia Simeng died from the torture ordered by Poseidon and Hades, Lin Qiye vowed to hunt down the gods on the four divine mountains. As Shen Qingzhu and Hu Jia attacked their assigned mountains, Lin Qiye weighed how to confront Apollo and Poseidon and took out a blank-labeled Game Cartridge.

• Xia Simeng refused Lin Qiye’s offer to live on in someone else’s mind, expressed her wish for freedom, and died in his arms.
• Cao Sha told Lin Qiye that Poseidon and Hades had ordered Xia Simeng’s torture, and Lin Qiye saw nearly two thousand ordinary people dead along the shore.
• Lin Qiye called on the Great Xia Night Watchmen and Human Apexes to hunt the gods and leave no bodies intact.
• Shen Qingzhu entered Hades’s Netherworld Killing Array on Ghost God Mountain, while Hu Jia climbed Wine God Mountain and played his Stone Xun against its spiritual killing array.
• Lin Qiye realized no one had gone to face Apollo or Poseidon, considered the limits of splitting his strength between them, and took a blank-labeled Game Cartridge from his chest.

Lin Qiye summoned Yurina Takishiro from the game world, and Yurina went to confront Apollo on Sun God Mountain. By revealing Apollo’s abilities and activating game-like combat functions, Yurina prepared to face the Mythological Killing Array.

• Lin Qiye summoned Yurina Takishiro through a game doorway, and Yurina emerged with the aura of the divine realm.
• Yurina declined to take back Divine Calamity, so Lin Qiye kept the sword and headed toward Sea God Mountain while Yurina climbed Sun God Mountain.
• Apollo was surprised to find Yurina on his mountain instead of Lin Qiye and questioned who he was.
• Yurina brought game rules onto the battlefield, exposing Apollo’s status and abilities while hiding his own panel.
• Apollo activated the Mythological Killing Array: Nine Suns Burning Sky, and Yurina’s system enabled warnings, auto-dodge, global vision, and auto-targeting.

Lin Qiye confronted Poseidon on Sea God Mountain, but Poseidon trapped him in the Twin Wheel Sea, where fish made the two opponents grow and shrink at different rates. Lin Qiye used Karma Threads to force Poseidon to relive a memory of being hunted by a crimson-cloaked swordsman.

• Lin Qiye attacked Poseidon with Zhanbai before Poseidon could finish speaking, drawing blood from his cheek.
• Poseidon opened the Twin Wheel Sea restriction and sent a giant crimson sea fish to swallow Lin Qiye, who escaped by cutting it apart.
• Lin Qiye saw that the crimson fish shrank after swallowing prey, while a black fish enlarged Poseidon after swallowing him.
• As Poseidon grew into a giant, Lin Qiye avoided the crimson fish and flew toward him with both blades ready.
• Lin Qiye's Karma Threads entered Poseidon's cheek wound and made him relive a rainy night when a crimson-cloaked swordsman had pursued him across the sea.

Lin Qiye used Uncaused Cause to make Poseidon relive a history of terror, then activated Hand of Royal Authority and fused with Zhanbai’s abilities to attack the giant god. He left Poseidon wounded and continued his assault by striking at his arm and brow.

• Poseidon recognized Lin Qiye and faltered, allowing Lin Qiye to slash a cross-shaped wound into his chest with Divine Calamity.
• Poseidon summoned the red and black sea fish, and the black fish swallowed him before he grew even larger in the Ink Wheel Sea.
• Poseidon attacked with a colossal flaming fist, while Lin Qiye activated Hand of Royal Authority and took on Zhanbai’s ability to ignore space and enter the void.
• Lin Qiye bypassed Poseidon’s fist, carved a kilometers-long wound into his arm, evaded Poseidon’s counterattack, and struck his brow.

Lin Qiye used Poseidon’s memories of a thousand years of repeated torture to break his resistance and force him to dispel the Twin Wheel Sea. On the summit of Sea God Mountain, Lin Qiye knelt Poseidon beneath a blood-red sky and declared that he would grant him death.

• Lin Qiye wounded the giant Poseidon and wrapped him in Karma Threads, triggering memories of the crimson figure who had hunted and tortured him every ten years.
• Poseidon recalled that the figure had promised to kill him when the sky turned blood-red after a thousand years, and had prevented him from taking his own life.
• Lin Qiye reformed Zhanbai, appeared before Poseidon, and spoke the words that had haunted him throughout the centuries.
• Poseidon’s terror caused him to dispel the Twin Wheel Sea, returning them to the summit of Sea God Mountain.
• Lin Qiye pierced Poseidon with Divine Calamity, ordered him to kneel, and pointed out the blood-red mark in the sky.
• Poseidon welcomed the long-awaited end as Lin Qiye declared, “Today, I grant you death.”

Hu Jia, Shen Qingzhu, and Yurina Takishiro defeated Dionysus, Hades, and Apollo on their respective divine mountains. As blood stained the mountains and the gods’ laws vanished, the battles ended with all three gods dead.

• Hu Jia played the Stone Xun to drive Dionysus mad, then killed him with his sword.
• Shen Qingzhu broke Hades’s Underworld Restriction and killed him after seeing that Poseidon and Dionysus had died.
• Yurina Takishiro criticized Apollo’s skills and attributes before using a modified Executioner’s Blade to defeat him.
• Apollo’s challenge failed.

Yurina Takishiro followed Amy Mei to a hidden cavern where Olympus kept a human circle, and Amy Mei freed its residents and rallied them in the sunlight. Elsewhere, Amy Mei’s game transported the Lesser Gods away, and Lin Qiye returned with the Olympus Origin and a bloodstained head.

• Yurina Takishiro opened the passage from the game world, letting Amy Mei emerge after he defeated Apollo.
• Amy Mei led Yurina Takishiro to a cavern filled with Olympus’s emaciated human circle and said she had a way to save them.
• Chen Han and Master Chen crossed the battlefield while Guan Zai, Wu Quan, Shao Pingge, and other Human Apex fighters struggled against the Lesser Gods.
• Amy Mei’s game loaded and transported the Lesser Gods away from the battlefield.
• Amy Mei brought the cavern’s residents into the sunlight, declared that Great Xia had defeated Olympus’s gods, and took a group photo with them.
• Lin Qiye descended amid the arriving Lesser Gods, carrying the Olympus Origin and a bloodstained head.

Lin Qiye destroyed Olympus and refused the surviving Lesser Gods’ surrender, then arranged for Utopia to evacuate civilians and approved Ling Lin as Phoenix Squad’s new captain. As the Explorer Ships headed back to Great Xia, Lovecraftian Deities emerged from the fog and surrounded them.

• Lin Qiye declared Olympus doomed and ordered Shen Qingzhu, Hu Jia, and Yurina Takishiro to kill every Lesser God who offered to surrender.
• After the Olympus Gods were slaughtered, Lin Qiye kept the torch Origin intact to protect Nyx and wondered why the hidden enemy had not appeared.
• Shao Pingge arranged for Utopia’s pixel fleet to evacuate the Human Circle’s residents and the abducted coastal civilians.
• Ling Lin asked to replace Xia Simeng as Phoenix Squad’s captain, and Lin Qiye agreed to issue her appointment after their return.
• As the Explorer Ships sailed toward Great Xia, massive Lovecraftian Deities emerged from the gray fog and surrounded them.

Lin Qiye’s countdown over Olympus drew An Qingyu and nine Lovecraftian Deities out of the mist, setting Great Xia’s forces against them. Lin Qiye left Shen Qingzhu to face the approaching gods and confronted An Qingyu on an ice sheet, where their reunion turned to talk of Long Bai and Artificial God research.

• Nine Lovecraftian Deities emerged from the mist, and Lin Qiye ordered Ling Lin to take Phoenix Squad into the cabin.
• Lin Qiye revealed that the countdown over Olympus had been bait to draw An Qingyu out and force Great Xia to seize the initiative.
• Shen Qingzhu stayed with the human gods and Human Apexes as Lin Qiye rushed toward An Qingyu on the ice.
• Lin Qiye evaded two Lovecraftian God guards and met An Qingyu, exchanging news about Long Bai and Amy Mei.
• An Qingyu discussed Amy Mei’s abilities and the Pure Land’s Artificial God research, prompting Lin Qiye to ask whether An Qingyu was conducting similar research.

Lin Qiye captured An Qingyu in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods while Shen Qingzhu, Hu Jia, Yurina Takishiro, and the others fought their way out of the Lovecraftian Gods’ ambush. As the group fled in Master Chen’s carriage, a crack appeared in the teapot inside the Mindscape, raising questions about whether the outside battle could reach them.

• Lin Qiye used the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to trap An Qingyu and take him away from the battlefield.
• Seraph Lin Qiye joined Shen Qingzhu, Hu Jia, and Yurina Takishiro in defending the retreating carriage as Master Chen drove the others through the Lovecraftian Gods’ siege.
• Seraph Lin Qiye activated Alfred’s Aria and other prepared forbidden spells, clearing a path through the purple clouds for the carriage.
• Guan Zai proposed that he and Master Chen stay behind if the Lovecraftian Gods caught up, but Wu Quan and Chen Han insisted on staying too.
• A crack appeared in Master Chen’s purple clay teapot inside the Mindscape, and Master Chen wondered how the outside battle’s aftershocks had reached them.

Zhou Ping’s sword strike from Great Xia destroyed three Lovecraftian Gods and carved a vast scar through the sea, but the attack left dark-red cracks spreading across his body. Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to trap him, where Chaos greeted them.

• Zhou Ping’s distant sword strike cut the sea into mist and erased the three Lovecraftian Gods pursuing the carriage.
• Guan Zai realized the carriage was traveling inside the sword’s path, while Seraph Lin Qiye saw the enormous scar across the ocean and recognized his Teacher’s power.
• Zhou Ping told Destiny Monk that he had killed three enemies and confirmed the others were safe, then concealed the spreading cracks and asked for Lin Qiye to visit him.
• Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and showed him the last empty ward, explaining that the hospital could contain him.
• Chaos greeted An Qingyu from the hospital corridor and jokingly asked whether he had come for a vacation.

Lin Qiye imprisoned An Qingyu in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and assigned Li Yifei to supervise him. An Qingyu inferred Lin Qiye’s plan to counter the nine Lovecraftian Gods, but neither revealed his own backup plan, leaving Li Yifei alone with the new patient.

• Lin Qiye dragged Chaos back into Ward Five and locked the door after Chaos tried to talk to him.
• Li Yifei panicked when he recognized An Qingyu, and Lin Qiye assigned An Qingyu to Ward Six under his supervision.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei to let An Qingyu walk, read, and drink tea, but not to let him do anything excessive; An Qingyu did not need medication.
• An Qingyu questioned whether Lin Qiye’s view of reality was accurate and warned that the nine Lovecraftian Gods could not be defeated.
• An Qingyu deduced that Lin Qiye had used Olympus as a trap and relied on the Mortal World Sword Immortal’s ascension, while Lin Qiye asked about An Qingyu’s backup plan.
• Lin Qiye left the hospital, and An Qingyu walked to Ward Six after Li Yifei cautiously offered him corn pancakes.

Lin Qiye returned to Great Xia after the battle against Olympus, bringing the wounded Phoenix Squad and Xia Simeng’s body. He left again to settle an unresolved debt, while Destiny Monk arranged to meet him in the desert where Zhou Ping was in seclusion.

• Lin Qiye evacuated everyone from the failing carriage over the sea and confirmed that Xia Simeng’s captor had been caught, though the other six had escaped.
• At Chenglong Pass, Su Zhe and the Demon Squad discussed being left behind before Lin Qiye and the others returned from Olympus.
• Lin Qiye told the Demon Squad that Olympus had been destroyed and revealed Xia Simeng had died, asking them to prepare a coffin for her memorial service.
• Lin Qiye departed with killing intent, saying he still had a debt to settle.
• Destiny Monk decided against returning to Kunlun Mountain and asked Min Junliang to tell Lin Qiye to meet him in the desert where Zhou Ping was in seclusion.

Lin Qiye confronted Destiny Monk over his lie that had led to the deaths of 2,163 people, including Xia Simeng, and rejected Destiny Monk’s argument that their sacrifice had been necessary to protect two Human Apexes. Lin Qiye left Destiny Monk alive under guard and continued toward the Sword Pavilion after Destiny Monk urged him to see Zhou Ping.

• Lin Qiye found Destiny Monk in a remote desert and stopped his blade just short of killing him.
• Destiny Monk defended his lie by arguing that it had prevented the loss of two Human Apexes against the Lovecraftian Gods.
• Lin Qiye declared that a Night Watchman could not protect humanity by treating ordinary lives as expendable, then beat Destiny Monk nearly to death.
• Lin Qiye spared Destiny Monk and ordered him confined to his temple, with a medical team sent to treat him.
• Destiny Monk told Lin Qiye to see Zhou Ping, and Lin Qiye continued toward the Sword Pavilion.

Lin Qiye visited Zhou Ping in the Sword Pavilion after Zhou Ping reached the Supreme Realm, and they discussed Destiny Monk’s role in humanity’s war. Zhou Ping revealed that his body could barely bear his new power and refused Lin Qiye’s likely offer of the Primordial Spirit Embryo.

• Lin Qiye congratulated Zhou Ping on reaching the Supreme Realm and asked what Zhou Ping would have done in Destiny Monk’s place.
• Zhou Ping said he would have charged into Olympus to rescue Great Xia’s people, then explained that Lin Qiye needed capable allies like Destiny Monk to lead humanity.
• Lin Qiye invited Zhou Ping to leave the Sword Pavilion for dinner, but Zhou Ping said he could no longer leave.
• Lin Qiye discovered cracks and darkened skin across Zhou Ping’s body, which could not withstand the Supreme Realm’s power.
• Zhou Ping refused before Lin Qiye could offer him the Primordial Spirit Embryo.

Lin Qiye learned that Zhou Ping had only three sword strikes left before the Dragon Elephant Sword shattered and killed him, but Zhou Ping offered to use them when humanity needed them. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, An Qingyu encountered Chaos and questioned how he had survived, while Chaos asked what An Qingyu was really doing there.

• Zhou Ping refused Lin Qiye’s offer of the Primordial Spirit Embryo and explained that changing bodies again would likely kill him.
• Zhou Ping told Lin Qiye he could draw his sword only three more times and offered to strike anywhere in the world if Lin Qiye needed him.
• Li Yifei forced Chaos to swallow a vat of medicine, then left after arranging pineapple fried rice for An Qingyu.
• An Qingyu asked Chaos why Lin Qiye had not killed him, and Chaos questioned An Qingyu’s purpose for staying at the hospital.

Lin Qiye brought An Qingyu to the Sword Pavilion to meet Zhou Ping, where Shen Qingzhu had brought takeout. Zhou Ping urged An Qingyu to abandon Cthulhu and stay in Great Xia, then threatened to cut him down, leaving An Qingyu frozen in place.

• Lin Qiye shut Chaos inside Ward Five, warned An Qingyu not to speak to him, and took An Qingyu to see Zhou Ping.
• Shen Qingzhu arrived at the Sword Pavilion with takeout and baijiu, and Zhou Ping agreed to let An Qingyu join them.
• An Qingyu sat with Zhou Ping, Lin Qiye, and Shen Qingzhu by the brazier, then undid the knot on the takeout bag.
• Zhou Ping urged An Qingyu to give up Cthulhu and remain in Great Xia, then threatened to cut him down.
• An Qingyu stiffened as Zhou Ping's Sword Intent made him feel as though his head might be severed.

Zhou Ping spared An Qingyu but warned that his sword would show no mercy next time, and Lin Qiye led An Qingyu away from the Sword Pavilion. In Great Xia, eleven people emerged from seventeen years of seclusion and began investigating the outside world, only to discover that the moon was missing.

• Zhou Ping dismissed the Sword Intent around An Qingyu's neck and shared a silent drink with An Qingyu, Lin Qiye, and Shen Qingzhu.
• Lin Qiye led An Qingyu out of the Sword Pavilion after Zhou Ping warned him that he would not spare him next time.
• A mountain in Great Xia split open, releasing eleven people who had cultivated in seclusion for seventeen years.
• Luan Lie ordered Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth to scout nearby cities and villages while the others waited.
• Luan Lie looked up at the night sky and realized that the moon was gone.

Lin Qiye learned that the hidden realm near Shennongjia had opened and sent Fang Mo to retrieve the eleven Golden Immortal agents inside. King Mask and Lu Wuwei returned from Antarctica injured, and King Mask described a mysterious Time Maze where movement through space altered time.

• Lin Qiye questioned Fang Mo about the hidden realm near Shennongjia and learned that its seal had likely broken the previous night.
• Fang Mo set out to find the eleven agents, who had spent enough time inside the realm to grow to about Lin Qiye's age.
• Min Junliang reported that King Mask and Lu Wuwei had returned, and Lin Qiye hurried to the infirmary to check on them.
• King Mask said he had slowed Lu Wuwei's time to keep him alive, though he had lost divine power and lifespan.
• King Mask recounted how he and Lu Wuwei had been trapped near Antarctica in a space where moving through space caused unpredictable changes in time.

Lin Qiye learned that King Mask and Lu Wuwei had encountered what might be the wreckage of the Gate of Truth in the Time Maze, and found a scrap of Nyx’s skirt there. Meanwhile, Fang Mo reunited with the Golden Immortal agents after they left the grotto-heaven, unaware that a gray rat was watching them.

• King Mask told Lin Qiye how the Time Maze separated him from Lu Wuwei and how he rescued Lu Wuwei near an ancient, damaged door.
• Lin Qiye recognized the door as possibly the Gate of Truth’s wreckage and learned that King Mask had found a scrap of Nyx’s skirt in the maze.
• Lin Qiye visited the still-unconscious Lu Wuwei and considered the wreckage a possible way to confront the Key of Doors, then entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods to seek answers.
• In Shennongjia, Luan Lie and the others concluded that the moon had disappeared after seeing Number Eleven cry over it.
• Fang Mo and the Demon Squad found the Golden Immortal agents, who excitedly crowded around Fang Mo before he led them away to eat.
• A gray rat emerged from underground and watched Fang Mo’s group leave.